Why not build the nuclear plants and run everything on the resulting elecricity? Wouldn’t that be “greener” abd much simpler?
Not necessarily, because making an electric car that is as convenient, with the same performance and range, as a regular car is not going to be simple, might not even be possible any time soon.
Drive across the country, from Portland Maine to Portland Oregon. You will see big long stretches of cornfields, and forests, and then as you cross rivers, and pass dozens of small towns, day after day, the fields turn into range, and mountains, where you see cattle and antelope, together out in the sage brush.
No one has any idea of what it is like until they personally drive across country, and get some small idea of just how Huge these United States are. Start out in Iowa in the morning, and plow across Nebraska, hour after hour, and you won't see Wyoming until dusk. Utah and Idaho are still hours away.
Gasoline, until The Great Liar, was relatively cheap, and easily found. Only a Marxist would trash the oil industry and smugly explain that it was for your own good.